On 1/15/06, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The only source for popt that I know of is debian.

popt originated from Redhat's rpm package. The tarball is available at
ftp.rpm.org.

>  We are just using
> the latest version.  How much difference does autotools make on a 0.2
> SBU package anyway?

The patch patches the configure script but because the autotools get
executed, it will overwrite that. I am not bothered about the time,
but about applying something that is not needed. The patch is
*probably* useful on exotic arches since it updates config.sub and
config.guess to the latest versions.

> Your suggestion rolls back a current package for a negligible gain in
> time.  I don't agree with it.

The final fix is negligible, replacing "if (arg == NULL || (((unsigned
long)arg) & (sizeof(*arg)-1)))" with "if (arg == NULL)" will achive
the same thing as the patch.

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